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Whistleblowers, activists, journalists: Is advocacy journalism the journalism of the digital age?

Journalists shouldn’t identify themselves with a specific cause. However, journalists like Glenn Greenwald, who published the documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, disagree. He believes that journalists can also be activists. With a new project financed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar called The Intercept, Greenwald is carrying out a journalistic mission. “Our longer-term mission is to provide aggressive and independent adversarial journalism,” he says. In the age of Wikileaks and social media, important questions arise: To what extent should journalists be allowed to express an opinion and take a stance in their reporting, and which platforms will serve to inform us in the future?